Naomi Watts stars as Diana film premieres in Leicester Square

Fans of the late Princess of Wales flocked to London's Leicester Square to
catch a glimpse of Naomi Watts at the premiere of Diana.

8:32AM BST 06 Sep 2013

The film stars two-time Oscar nominee Naomi Watts as the late Princess of Wales and Naveen Andrews as her lover Dr Hasnat Khan.

Both were on Leicester Square's red carpet to greet fans.

"Usually when you take on a character you work from the inside and then get to the outside and focus on the appearance and the walk and the voice and things like that, but in this case I did it in the reverse direction. Starting with the look and the voice, obviously being the most important one and then getting into the interior life after," Watts said.

For Andrews things were different. The man he plays is alive, but he was unable to contact him for research as he didn't want to be involved with the movie.

"He was very passionate about his privacy being compromised or violated in any way, and so, even though we may have wanted to make contact with him, we couldn't. We knew that he knew the film was being made and it's my hope that if he does see the film that he'd be able to see that we rendered him with great respect," he said.